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"Content" by Cory Doctorow

by: Jan Rubak

Publication date: 2008
Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
Topics: Doctorow, Copyfight, Copyright, Copyleft, Creative Commons, EFF, DRM, Ebooks, Digital Age, Kurzweil, Singularity, Boing Boing
Item Size: 3.7G

''Content'' Front Cover

"Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future" by Cory Doctorow. Read by Jan Rubak (rubakj[at]gmail[dot]com) Official Website of the Book: http://craphound.com/content/ The entire text of the book is available in various formats for free download from http://craphound.com/content/download/, or for purchase at your favourite bookstore for US$14.95 (ISBN: 978-1-892391-81-0). Additional material by John Perry Barlow:

If you enjoy this material, you may also be interested in:

"Context" by Cory Doctorow (the follow-up to this book)
Doctorow on Copyright, von Lohmann on DRM
"The Public Domain" by James Boyle

Notes

The entire book is now available. Enjoy!

I'm considering adding a final "afterthought" chapter with my own comments/observations and tips for anyone else wanting to perform this kind of reading. So if you enjoy this material, you may want to check back at some point in the future.

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Addeddate: 2008-10-15 06:21:45
Identifier: CoryDoctorow-Content_268
Taped by: Jan Rubak
Year: 2008

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04 - Why Is Hollywood Making a Sequel to the Napster Wars?

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05 - You DO Like Reading Off a Computer Screen

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06 - How Do You Protect Artists?

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10 - Giving It Away

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12 - How Copyright Broke

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18 - The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights

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19 - When the Singularity Is More Than a Literary Device

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25 - All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites

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26 - Read Carefully

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27 - World of Democracycraft

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